Last night’s text from Sue at the yard said that the rip in the near hind-quarter of Vin’s turnout rug has got too big. She asked if she could use the Heavyweight Rambo that’s on the top rack of my shelving.<\/p>\n
I rang her to ask if his rug would be good enough to last for another day. I explained that I didn’t want to use that Rambo, it costs well over \u00a3250 these days.<\/p>\n
I can think of a better use of \u00a3250 than chucking it down the throat of another horse.<\/p>\n
I also said that the Rambo is a very heavyweight rug – and probably much too warm for Vin, given that he’s only got a low trace clip.<\/p>\n
Anyway, this behaviour; it’s the gelding thing.<\/p>\n
They nag at each other all the time.<\/p>\n
Sometimes they’re only playing, sometimes they play too hard.<\/p>\n
But teeth and shod hooves flash around and sometimes these things make contact with a little more force than intended – sometimes they make contact with precisely for amount of force that was intended!<\/p>\n
And so the relatively minor rip had turned in to a big gaping tear.<\/p>\n
This morning we tried Countrywide Stores; if I’m buying rugs I usually call there first. Sadly we struck out – 6’6″ very high-necked medium weight turnout rugs weren’t in stock.<\/p>\n
Nags Needs in Fernhill Heath came through with a nice-looking rug that ticked all the right boxes for \u00a363.<\/p>\n
Back at the yard I sized and fitted it and as you can see it fits brilliantly:<\/p>\n
After the rug-fitting I tacked him up and we schooled in the arena for 45 minutes, then it was back on with the rug and out in the field with his mates.<\/p>\n
It took just under seven minutes for Vinnie to stroll over to the big mud patch, get down on his knees, slide over on to his side and then roll up and over on to his back.<\/p>\n
One nice new shiny rug… covered in mud.<\/p>\n
I don’t really care about that – I just hope he can make it last without getting it ripped!<\/p>\n
And… You may remember that I blogged recently about the yard Christmas Meal?<\/p>\n
I’ve just found this grainy photo of my dessert – the lemon and lime cheesecake:<\/p>\n
Enjoy!<\/p>\n
And (again)…<\/p>\n
I hope that you enjoy your Christmas and New Year celebrations.<\/p>\n
But more importantly – I hope you all have a brilliant 2008!<\/p>\n
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